51.   For the rebel Serbs, the cease fire cements battlefield realities.

52.   Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze on Saturday praised a U.N. resolution prolonging the mandate of an observer mission monitoring the cease fire in the breakaway Abkhazia region.

53.   Gen. Najib, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defence, said the unofficial cease fire declared Saturday had broken down.

54.   Hammarskjold was killed while trying to arrange a cease fire in the Congo, which had just gained independence from Belgium.

55.   He also will report to his father on the progress of the cease fire, Carter Center officials said.

56.   He also warned that recent Taliban advances on the battlefield north of the beleaguered capital were threatening U.N. efforts to broker a cease fire.

57.   He insists the war against him is a foreign invasion and that Rwandan and Ugandan troops must leave before any cease fire can be implemented.

58.   He helped achieve a cease fire in Croatia but peace eluded him in Bosnia.

59.   He said he is not surprised that even when cease fire agreements were reached and relative calm reigned elsewhere, Rafah remained on fire.

60.   He said that in agreeing to participate in the talks, the two Kurdish groups committed themselves to a cease fire.